1 . LONDON- Britain prepares for a vote Thursday that will decide whether it leaves the European Union. The debate has centered on immigration and economic security. Both sides have lowered the tone of their arguments after a three-day suspension(暂停) of campaigning that followed the murder of an anti-Brexit lawmaker, an incident that polls(民意调查) suggest has shocked many previously undecided voters who now say they will vote to remain.

These are uncertain times in a nation whose economy is the second largest in the European Union. The risks are huge. There are warnings that leaving the 28-member group may cause the British pound to lose 15 percent of its value and bring the resignation(辞职) of David Cameron, the country's prime minister; his stay or not depends on whether Britain listens to him and votes to remain.

For months, the Leave campaign has been hitting the streets. Its arguments are based largely on immigration, and the belief that Britain has handed control of its borders(边界) to a European super state: "The U.K. has lost control over migration. We have to accept anyone into this country if they have an EU passport, no matter if they have a criminal record or not. We are not allowed to say 'no' to people and that is damaging for the security of the U.K., but it is also putting pressure on jobs and opportunities for young people," said Tom Harwood, a Brexit campaigner.

The murder of Jo Cox, an anti-Brexit, pro-immigrant lawmaker by a far right extremist(极端分子) with a history of mental problems had a serious effect on both campaigns, and on voters.

Polls since the June 16th murder showed the Leave camp losing ground, but with both sides still very close on a referendum(全民投票) that many believe could change the course of European history.

1. What does the underlined word " Brexit" in paragraph 3 mean?

A．Break the law of the European Union.

B．Break away from the European Union.

C．Build the exit to the European Union.

D．Ban the immigration into Britain.

2. What is implied from the passage?

A．The immigration has caused great concern in Britain.

B．Brexit will be good for British economy.

C．Both camps have been campaigning and debating on the streets for months.

D．The murder of Jo Cox made many voters determined to vote for the exit.

3. Which of the following statement is true?

A．Britain will leave the European Union after the vote.

B．Anyone with a passport can choose to stay and work in Britain.

C．Whether Cameron will resign depends on the result of the referendum.

D．Jo Cox was murdered by a Brexit campaigner in June 16m.

4. What's the attitude of the report to the event of Brexit?

A．Positive

B．Negative

C．Indifferent(漠不关心的)

D．Concerned.

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. Which book will you choose if you likes science?

A．Shallow Earth.

B．Give me Shelter.

C．Jump for the Stars.

2. Who are the main characters of Shallow Earth?

A．A group of soldiers.

B．A group of players.

C．Two young people.

3. What is Tray McGrady?

A．A basketball player.

B．A director.

C．A writer.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the relationship between the speakers?

A．Teacher and student.

B．Workmates.

C．Doctor and patient.

2. What does the man usually eat for lunch?

A．A sandwich and a cup of coffee.

B．Noodles.

C．Some snacks.

3. How does the man go along with his work?

A．He does his work very well.

B．He doesn't like his work.

C．He has a lot of trouble in his work.

4. What does the woman ask the man to do?

A．Eat more vegetables.

B．Take some exercise.

C．Be away from work.

4 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How much will the man pay for the trip all together?

A．$339.

B．$678.

C．$1,356.

2. What does the man's package include?

A．Five nights' accommodation and air tickets.

B．A sightseeing tour on boat and accommodation.

C．The stay and meals.

3. What can we learn from the conversation?

A．The man has just got married.

B．The speakers will take a boat to the destination.

C．The Maid of the Mist is the most beautiful scenery.

5 . Babies made from three people approved in UK

Babies made from two women and one man have been approved by the UK’s fertility regulator. The historic and controversial move is to prevent children from being born with deadly genetic diseases.

Doctors in Newcastle — who developed the advanced form of In Vitro Fertilization or IVF (人工授精) — are expected to be the first to offer the procedure and have already appealed for donor eggs. The first such child could be born, at the earliest, by the end of 2017.

Some families have lost multiple children to incurable mitochondrial (线粒体的) diseases, which can leave people with insufficient energy to keep their heart beating.

The diseases are passed down from only the mother, so a technique using a donor egg as well as the mother’s egg and father’s sperm has been developed.

The resulting child has a tiny amount of their DNA from the donor, but the procedure is legal and reviews say it is ethical (伦理的) and scientifically ready.

“It is a decision of historic importance,” said Sally Cheshire, chairwoman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). “I’m sure patients will be really pleased by what we’ve decided today.”

But some scientists have questioned the ethics of the technique, saying it could open the door to genetically-modified(转基因) ‘designer’ babies.

The HFEA must approve every clinic and every patient before the procedure can take place. Three-person babies have been allowed only in cases where the risk of a child developing mitochondrial disease is very high.

Prof Mary Herbert, from the Newcastle Fertility Centre, said, “It is enormously pleasing that our many years of research in this area can finally be applied to help families affected by these devastating diseases”.

“Now that we are moving forward towards clinical treatments, we will also need donors to donate eggs for use in treatment to prevent affected women transmitting disease to their children.”

Prof Sir Doug Turnbull, the director of the Welcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research at Newcastle University, said, “We are delighted by today’s decision. We will also provide long-term follow up of any children born.”

NHS England has agreed to fund the treatment costs of the first trial of three-person IVF for those women who meet the HFEA criteria, as long as they agree to long-term follow up of their children after they are born.

1. Why is it historically important to approve babies made from three people?

A．It helps couples who lose the ability to give birth to a baby.

B．It marks a foundation stone to change babies’ appearances before birth.

C．It stops deadly genetic diseases passing down to newly-born babies.

D．It turns out to be an advanced form of In Vitro Fertilization.

2. Which of the following is TRUE about mitochondrial diseases?

A．They pass down on to babies from their parents.

B．They prevent people’s heart from functioning normally.

C．Some children infected can be cured with proper treatment.

D．Babies can be infected with them through a donor’s egg.

3. How can a clinic or a patient be approved of applying the three-person baby technique?

A．Only when the baby to be born needs it to survive.

B．Only when the patient gets financially prepared.

C．Only when the clinic gets scientifically ready.

D．Only when the technique is ethnically accepted.

4. What is the author’s attitude towards the approval of babies made from three people?

A．Supportive

B．Indifferent

C．Worried

D．Objective

6 . In 1984, I, a passionate student, was heading for the university with the dream of sitting on a Supreme Count bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a passionate _______ and one with quite a different tale to tell.

My grandma, a(n) _______ woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she _______ cancer. I made the choice to _______ from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to _______.

Then I got married with another _______: building my family with a combination of adopted and _______ children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then _______ son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.

You can imagine how _______ occupied I became, raising four boys on my own. Our home was a complete zoo—joyous zoo. Not surprising. I never did ______________ it back to college full-time. ______________ I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant ______________ as few as one class each semester.

The hardest part was feeling ______________ about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There ______________ were times when I wanted to quit, but I knew I should set a(n) ______________ for them to follow through the rest of their lives.

In 2006, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my ______________ degree!

I am not special, just singe-minded. It always ______________ me that when you’re looking at a big challenge from the ______________ it looks huge, but when you’re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won’t arrive in our life on one day. It’s a ______________. Remember: little steps ______________ big dreams.

1.

A．dreamer

B．graduate

C．mother

D．lawyer

2.

A．humorous

B．attractive

C．intelligent

D．amazing

3.

A．delivered

B．possessed

C．developed

D．produced

4.

A．withdraw

B．escape

C．drop

D．free

5.

A．cancel

B．reach

C．wait

D．start

6.

A．ambition

B．deal

C．dream

D．conclusion

7.

A．ecological

B．psychological

C．physical

D．biological

8.

A．accompanied

B．followed

C．involved

D．engaged

9.

A．fully

B．mostly

C．hardly

D．busily

10.

A．return

B．give

C．make

D．get:

11.

A．Or

B．So

C．Though

D．But

12.

A．changing

B．taking

C．shifting

D．setting

13.

A．concerned

B．guilty

C．determined

D．angry

14.

A．with certainty

B．by coincidence

C．at random

D．in case

15.

A．goal

B．motivation

C．example

D．image

16.

A．graduate

B．doctor

C．master

D．bachelor

17.

A．dawns

B．strikes

C．occurs

D．sticks

18.

A．upside

B．middle

C．outside

D．inside

19.

A．process

B．life

C．choice

D．destiny

20.

A．turn to

B．add to

C．build up

D．add up to

7 . 阅读下面短文，根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要

Paperless office was first coined in 1975. Four decades later, we’re still chasing the paperless office dream. Take the financial industry for example—it is one of the slower industries to hug digital transformation. Many financial institutions today still send out trade conformations by mail. I can tell you from first-hand experience that going paperless is by no means impossible. The Centric Digital office is a paperless work environment where all the office operations go digital, which has amazed our business partners.

Actually companies need to stress the benefits of a digital culture for communications. Going paperless can save time and money. You could say goodbye to costly repairs, office supply orders, wasted employee time and so on. Besides, forbidding paper in the office forces information to be 100% digital, where you can make endless amounts of backups (备份), which easily increase transparency(透明). Not to mention, top talents want to work for digital companies.

You might think the secret to a paperless company is purely technology. Well, not really. Thanks to products like iPads, smart-phones and cloud services, the ability to go paperless is highly accessible. Yet, even with all this technology, companies continue to rely on paper. It's not because they don’t have access to the technology, but because they’re lacking the politics, organizational structure and strong desire to change. In order to go paperless, companies need to change the way they think and operate. The decision needs to be made and cried out and everyone needs to work together to make it.

Yes, the paperless office has been a very long time in the making but it no longer has to be. With numerous amounts of software, services, apps and technology available today, the only thing we need to do is to make the decision to go paperless and see it through.

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8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the man?

A．A professor.

B．A student.

C．A researcher.

2. What can the Cornell Notes system help do?

A．Recite notes.

B．Copy notes.

C．Organize notes.

3. What should be avoided according to the system?

A．Main ideas of the text or speech.

B．Questions related to the review.

C．Long ideas and sentences.

4. Where should students write a summary?

A．On the left.

B．In the bottom.

C．On the right.

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the passage mainly about?

A．A new kind of hostel.

B．The development of hostels.

C．The reasons for the popularity of hostel.

2. By whom were hostels mostly used years ago?

A．Hikers.

B．Business travelers.

C．Older tourists.

3. How did the economic crisis influence hostels?

A．It brought down the price.

B．It increased the business.

C．It promoted better service.

4. What do the speakers say about modern hostels?

A．Their services are various.

B．Most of them are in the countryside.

C．They provide free bikes for the customers.

10 . Can We Stop Food Longing Through Imaginary Eating?

Are you fighting an urge to reach for chocolate? Then, let it melt in your mind, not in your mouth. According to the recent research, imagining eating a specific food reduces your interest in that food, so you eat less of it.

This reaction to repeated exposure to food—being less interested in something because you’ve experienced it too much—is called habituation.     1    

The research is the first to show that habituation can occur through the power of the mind. “If you just think about the food itself—how it tastes and smells—that will increase your appetite,” said Carey Morewedge, a well-known psychologist. “It might be better to force yourself to repeatedly think about chewing and swallowing the food in order to reduce your longing.     2     Visualizing yourself eating chocolate wouldn’t prevent you from eating lots of cheese,” he added.

Morewedge conducted an interesting experiment. 51 subjects were divided into three groups. One group was asked to imagine putting 30 coins into a laundry machine and then eating three chocolates.     3     Another group was asked to imagine putting three coins into a laundry machine and then eating 30 chocolates. Lastly, a control group imagined just putting 33 coins into the machine—with no chocolates.     4     When they said they had finished, these were taken away and weighed. The results showed the group that had imagined eating 30 chocolates each ate fewer of the chocolates than the other groups.

    5     Physical signals—that full stomach feeling—are only part of what tells us we’ve finished a meal. The research suggests that psychological effects, such as habituation, also influence how much a person eats. It may lead to new behavioral techniques for people looking to eat more healthily, or have control over other habits.

A．What’s more, this only works with the specific food you’ve imagined.

B．People were advised to try different methods to perform the experiment.

C．For example, a tenth bite is desired less than the first bite, according to the study.

D．All of them then ate freely from bowls containing the same amount of chocolate each.

E．It meant those who repeatedly imagined eating would concern about some specific food.

F．This requires the same motor skills as eating small chocolates from a packet, the study says.

G．This study is part of the research looking into what makes us eat more than we actually need.